LOS ANGELES—Labor strikes in 2023 by WGA and SAG-AFTRA pushed L.A. film and TV production down by 36.4% in Q4 of 2023 year-over-year, and for all of 2023 was down by 32.4% YoY, according to a new report from FilmLA, partner film office for the City and County of Los Angeles and other local jurisdictions.
“History offers no point of comparison to the present,” observed FilmLA President Paul Audley. “The pandemic year aside, we have to look very far back – farther back than permit records allow – to find a time when production levels stayed so low, for so long.”
